This month saw a productive and successful month at work, plenty days out, more Apple Fitness and plenty TV shows.
Work
- Passed 3 month probation which highlighted how many wins I’ve already got in the role
- Hosted our first online Pub Quiz to try improve morale across multiple teams
- Arranged Euro 2020 sweepstake but got England in the “random” generator
- Some great Lightning Talks ⚡️ including one from Sunny about Azure Devops to GitHub
- My manager arranged a remote wine-tasting session with Kiss Of Wine – great fun… plus wine 🍷
- Four trips to London and Birmingham offices to get back in the swing of commuting plus much-needed team face-to-face time
- Last Friday was Wellbeing Day – a gift from ASOS to give all permanent staff a day’s rest. My plans for a swim were scuppered so resorted to the hot tub
- Experiments with LinkedIn post formats to engage with audiences reached a climax with 15K impressions and 500 reactions (promoting wellbeing day)
Home
- First weekend away with Mrs J since October to Peak District – disappointing Wowcher hotel but beautiful days out to local nature
- Murder Mystery “geo-cache” tour around Birmingham with friends cut short for preferred booze
- Red flag on Green Flag cover when Mini broke down but repatriation cost double and took days (thankful for tracking with Apple Airtag though)
- The Boy wrapped up his football career with last few games for local club after nearly 10 years and impressive final performance for the entire team
- Started Apple Fitness+ subscription to try more home exercises
- Tried a couple 5K runs following 2 months of orthotics training – still causing my knees and soles grief though
- Beer festival at local Weedon Bec Roman Way brewery brought much needed sun and fun
Sides
- Football Cal was launched for the Euro 2020 competition with regular content updates and reasonable traffic (using Netlify and Plausible to avoid Google cookie warnings)
- Make Life Work Season 6 started with huge downloads on Rob Manuel and Chris Heilmann episodes
- #FinesseFriday continued to support growth on regular downloads, now seeing 1K+ weekly
- House Finesse Summer House ‘21 was made and released, a full 2 hour set from myself this time
- On The Side Directory was revived thanks to reminders from Sam and Holly
- Time Journal has been paused to see if it makes any difference to Get Things Done
Entertainment
- Breeders on Now TV
- Alien on Prime
- Workin’ Moms S5 on Netflix
- Clarkson’s Farm on Prime
- Waynes World on Prime
- Euro 2020 (obvs)
- Mare of Easttown on NowTV
- Pixar’s Luca on Disney+
- In The Heights at Cineworld
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Perfect Startup by Andrii Sedniev
- Fast Focus by Damon Zahariades